Background Information

With the changes to the data output via its Domain Query lookup service, DENIC implements the provisions of the European General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) becoming applicable from 25 May 2018, which regulate the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data. These amendments were mainly determined by the principle of data economy.

Those data relating to the technical contact and zone administrator (Tech-C, Zone-C) as well as to the administrative contact (Admin-C) previously output via the Domain Query are no longer recorded and consequently not displayed anymore.

The two e-mail addresses (for General Request and Abuse) recorded in addition to the domain holder data are non-personalised addresses. They are under the registrar's responsibility.

DENIC continues recording and publishing such technical data, including name server or DNS key information, that is needed to establish the functionality of the domain.

DENIC public-whois

Next to the domain query service, DENIC offers a command-line-based public whois, which can be used to query the technical data of a .de domain via port 43.